The Madras Mail

March 21st, 2008
I am officially unemployed.

Yesterday happened to be my last day at one of the best places to work in on the planet, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd., Gopalapuram Office. After spending the last 10 months there, reading the news for 4 hours, reviewing movies, sandwiches at 11, lunches at the Copper Chimney, Kabul, cell phone towers, BTS-s, MSC-s, BSC-s, SAP Project Builder, invoicing, et cetera, today I find myself at home feeling that something inside me has actually died. I’ll miss that place, the nicest people I’ve ever met, who put up with all the shit I did and made me feel at home. Thank you Ericsson, I don’t think I can ever work anywhere else again.

I had a discussion with my cousin yesterday on my future plans, he’s a historian by the way. He told me to look at life as if it were a prison and not the free world as we think of it. Rather, a prison where we get snatches of freedom, certain times when there are inmates who we can talk to, and about how man is never free and so forth. Yeah, that f***ed me up.

Right now, the only thing that I want to do is to travel the world, and open a restaurant/bar. Nothing else seems important to me. I need money for all that, that’s why am into this whole MBA scenario.

Now that am ‘retired’, I plan on getting myself a pipe, books by Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, a recliner, a humidor full of Cuban cigars and some very fine Scotch Whisky.

Ahh… life …

here i am with a cold n fever thats been bothering me for 2 days….i look like a guy whose been stoned….still i want to write this blog….actually u could say last week has been full of surprises….went to bangalore to collect my certificates…when i was at chennai central my mom calls me up n tells me that i’ve got a job at Ericsson and i have to report to work on thursday…when i reached my college they give me a conduct certificate that says ‘GOOD’…dear lord….i came back from bangalore with a throbbing headache and a terrible cold…reported to work on thursday…wearing formals(….lol…)….they told me i’ll get my offer letter on monday….and when i now sit and think back…i’m 19..a graduate….got a job at a sexy company….a pretty gud job too….man….what a life…..

The summer in chennai is around the corner…its freakin hot almost all day round…yet another week has passed..not very eventful…simply hung out wid sun, montu n george….CAT classes got postponed…fuckers sed they’ll begin by apr18 and now they want to start in the first week of may…i went for a job interview…the whole thing just came outta the blue and got over just like that…pretty informal session….me and a coupla senior managers….simply looked through my CV…and some mandatory questions…i’m waitin for the outcome…sed they’ll call me up by this sunday..so hopin for the best..pretty gud company….ericsson and a pretty gud job too…project assnt/coordinator….will be workin on SAP and some on site jobs…just hope i get it….so there isn’t anything else to write about now…have to go get a bath and do somethin…cheers